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Construction Training Gets a Boost from Home Depot
The building materials retailer will chip in $50 million over 10 years
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Timber Panel Fails at Oregon Building Site
Oregon State University says the problem was limited to a single panel on the $80 million project
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Building Products Dealer Dumps FedEx
475 High Performance Building Supply says FedEx corporate support for 'extremist, deadly' views of National Rife Association prompts the switch
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Aeroseal Rolls Out Air-Sealing Technology for Houses
The developer of a duct-sealing system promotes a new technique to air-seal a whole house with a low VOC sealant in just a few hours
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Commercial Net-Zero Buildings On the Rise
Report tracks a sharp increase in commercial buildings with verified net-zero performance
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3-D Printing Could Help Solve a Housing Crisis
A Texas firm says that a house can be built in one day, offering a way to provide shelter quickly in impoverished or storm-struck areas
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U.S. Looks to Europe for Energy Retrofit Model
A government-funded pilot program will attempt to replicate an approach to net-zero retrofits pioneered in the Netherlands
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Hemp Insulation Comes to North America
A Canadian firm opens a factory to produce hemp insulation for the residential construction market
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IRS Allows Tax Credit for Solar Battery Retrofit
The ruling affects only the couple requesting the tax break, but some insiders say it's a breakthrough
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Solar Firm Targets Low-Income Households
Louisiana-based PosiGen's ‘blue-collar green’ model combines home efficiency upgrades and solar panel leases